Shine off, you crazy diamond—Pink Floyd founder and acid casualty Syd Barrett has died of diabetes-related complications. He was 60.

The narrow parabola that was Barrett’s functional career—bursting onto the Brit psychedelic scene in 1965 and being more or less ejected from the band three years later after unravelling—is a sort of model, an inspiration, to many of The Interns, who find the idea of taking tremendous amounts of drugs and retiring after three years attractive. Today’s song features seven or eight of them having some sort of sonic argument with guitars.

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